Posted on 12/04/2025 4:19:28 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Some of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress are warning that the party needs to sharpen its affordability message to voters heading into the 2026 elections — or risk big losses that would shackle him for the rest of his second term.
“I would love him to get back to driving around in the garbage truck, going to McDonald’s. Go to a supermarket, go to a farm. That’s when he’s at his best,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew told CNN, recalling a message he conveyed to the president in a lengthy phone call earlier this week. “Next year, we got to concentrate — the American people first.”
Van Drew, a New Jersey Republican in a purple seat, said he’s not worried about his own reelection but is concerned for the political survival of “many of my friends, some people who won by one or two or three points.” And he’s worried about the House GOP’s fragile majority next November.
Many Republicans in Washington were already privately anxious that their party lacked a clear domestic agenda in Congress, as Trump himself devoted much of the fall to overseas crises. Those fears escalated this week, after their GOP candidate in a special election for a ruby-red Tennessee congressional district won on Tuesday by just nine points, after Trump himself won the seat by 22 points a year earlier.
Inside the party, GOP lawmakers and top strategists acknowledge that the Republican Party – including Trump – need to remind voters they are focused on making life more affordable for everyday Americans, with less emphasis on conflicts like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
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The Commie News Network (CNN) would love it if President Trump were to only be concerned with items abroad.
He works all the time, and is addressing all kinds of “internal” situations. Just ask all of the creepozoid Leftist-run cities that ICE and the Feds have “visited.”
Stop with the midterm shit all of you GOP hacks.
The economy will be the pivot point of the mid terms.
Can’t blame Trump. But idiots will.
It’s all about optics. And while the economy takes time to repair, the optics are in favor to sway the instant gratification crowd in the midterms unless something changes soon.
They don’t need Trump to do that. Let them get their asses busy filing lawsuits to change things. They just want to blame President Trump if they lose the midterms. A loss won’t be because of him. It will be because they are gutless wonders as usual.
Midterms are 11 months away. He is flipping the finger to America first practically every day. He is lost in Ukraine, Venezuela, doing anything Larry Ellison and the AI bros want, etc. He’s hiding the Epstein/Mossad Spy ring. real estate is in the toilet. He said Americans do not have skills and he wants more H1Bs and 600,000 more Red Chinese students. To top it off, the gilded White House ballroom project is sheer lunacy if you are going for the McDonalds and trash truck crowd. Elon found massive outright fraud with DOGE. Not a single arrest has been made from all that fraud, not one.
He needs to wake up and produce some results at home. His foolish obsession with everything AI and foreign policy is a giant risk at the mid-terms.
If the Democrats get back into power that is the end. It’s not just “maybe we will beat them next time”. Once they turn 25 million illegals into voters, that is the end.
Trump needs to wake up FAST.
They don’t need Trump to do that. Let them get their asses busy filing lawsuits to change things. They just want to blame President Trump if they lose the midterms. A loss won’t be because of him. It will be because they are gutless wonders as usual.
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I’ve been voting for these losers since I turned 18 in 1989.
They’re all talk & no action.
The 45th & 47th President, as well as VP Vance will try to save their useless asses in the midterms, but “ it’s a tall order.”
the absolute BULLCRAP pushed by the nutsacks in the MSM is that Trump is focusing too much on foreign policy. Don’t buy that crap for one second. Unlike the vegetable before him, TRUMP CAN AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN ABLE TO MULTI-TASK. Shove it CNN
Just admit you’re a Never-Trumper
We already know
Ah yes, CNN, the purveyor of FNC Propaganda and lies.
Ah yes, CNN, the purveyor of DNC Propaganda and lies.
The middle class is all but dead. The rich has prospered, but those in the middle and lower income end has suffered big-time and that is Trump’s base. At this point maybe it’s not the base he is worried about. J.D. Vance will eventually step in and start leaning toward the differences—it may get interesting between the two.
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